romance
French, noun
romance is spelled R-O-M-A-N-C-E (7 letters) and appears 4.2 times per million words in written French, the 12,736th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Romance is a French feminine noun meaning “a ballad; a love song” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of romancer. With an accent, romancé is a different word: “romanticized, fictionalized”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Poème espagnol en vers généralement octosyllabiques (les vers pairs étant assonancés et les impairs libres)…”.
What does romance mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininea ballad; a love song
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
adjective
- 1
romanticized, fictionalized
verb
- 1
past participle of romancer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Poème espagnol en vers généralement octosyllabiques (les vers pairs étant assonancés et les impairs libres) et qui traite de sujets historiques, épiques, amoureux, etc. 2. Chanson tendre ou plaintive. 3. Air sur lequel se chante une romance. 4. Ce qui marque une certaine sensibilité banale.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of romance
- romances plural
- romancée feminine
- romancés masculine plural
- romancées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to romance
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is romance in French?
romance appears 4.2 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).